AI Foundations - lesson 1

What AI actually is, in plain terms

Strip away the hype and you are left with something you can reason about.

What you will take away:

• Modern AI is a prediction engine, not a thinking machine. It produces the most likely next piece of text, image or sound based on patterns it has seen.
• It has no memory of you between sessions unless a product deliberately gives it one, and no understanding of truth.
• Its usefulness comes from speed and breadth, not from correctness. You supply the judgement.
• The gap between people who use AI well and badly is almost never technical. It is how clearly they can describe what they want.

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